I could be accused of loving the limelight—right from the very beginning. You see, I was born a few years after the Second World War, on June 10, 1949, to Grady “Skip” Lael, age 23, and Hazel Bleecker Lael, age 20, in Spokane, Washington. Although he’d...
I recently saw a blurb in Woman’s World magazine about a day to celebrate the four-legged soldiers who support our troops, and I was immediately onboard. Dogs (and other service animals) make an enormous contribution to the human race, not only in the Armed...
Working on the Country books, starting with Country Strong, I’ve found myself thinking about what’s important to me—and to so many of you, my dear readers, as you’ve kindly told me—and how these elements are reflected in my stories. They appear in all my contemporary...
Few things brighten a dreary winter day like the arrival of a seed catalog or, better yet, several of them. The covers are always brilliantly colorful, overflowing with blue-ribbon produce and/or glorious flowers, and inside those pages, well, the magic continues....
That’s the title of my new book, which will be released in six days, on January 21, 2020. I love, love, LOVE that title, for more reasons than one. (I’ll get to that.) Country Strong is the first novel in a trilogy of contemporary Western romance, set in...
The whole house smells mighty good as I write these words. I have a small turkey stewing in my 18-gallon roaster/slow cooker–the big bird, reserved for Thanksgiving, when my dear friends Jean and Curt will be visiting, is still in the freezer, awaiting the big...
